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En utskrift från Dagens Nyheter, 2020-06-04 00:30



Greta Thunberg speaks in Katowice: ”Our leaders behave like children”

01:00. Under FN:s klimatmöte i Polen höll svenska Greta Thunberg ett tal om sina tankar kring klimatet. Femtonåringen har blivit ett globalt fenomen efter sin skolstrejk för klimatet. En protest som spridit sig över hela världen och ända in i FN.
Bild 1 av 1 Greta Thunberg.
Foto: Roger Turesson

People will rise to the climate challenge – whether the world leaders like it or not. Read 15-year-old Greta Thunbergs speech to UN leader António Guterres at the climate change conference in Katowice.

For 25 years countless of people have stood in front of the United Nations climate conferences, asking our nations leaders to stop the emissions. But, clearly this has not worked since the emissions just continue to rise.

So I will not ask them anything.




Rich countries like Sweden need to start reducing emissions by at least 15% every year to reach the 2 degree warming target. You would think the media and everyone of our leaders would be talking about nothing else – but no one ever even mentions it.


Furthermore does no one ever speak about the aspect of equity clearly stated everywhere in the Parisagreement, which is absolutely necessary to make it work on a global scale. That means that rich countries like mine need to get down to zero emissions, within 6–12 years with todays emission speed, so that people in poorer countries can highten their standard of living by building some of the infrastructure that we have already built. Such as hospitals, electricity and clean drinking water. 



Greta Thunberg.
Greta Thunberg. Foto: Roger Turesson


And why should I be studying for a future that soon may be no more, when no one is doing anything to save that future? And what is the point of learning facts when the most important facts clearly means nothing to our society?



